The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president ...

Syria President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule was dangling by a thread after rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs.

Hundreds of people appear to have fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight into Friday, as anti-regime rebels push further south on the road to the capital Damascus.

Capturing Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, would be a major victory in a rebel offensive that already has captured Aleppo and Hama.

Syrian insurgents led by the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham captured two strategic towns north of Syria's third-largest city, Homs.

Syria’s rebels took Homs back from Assad in a matter of days. Now they have to police it Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that ...

Syrian antigovernment forces say they have reached the edge of Homs, hours after thousands of people began to flee the key city amid the opposition’s lightning offensive.

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president Bashar ...